tacoman25

GFS says relief is coming soon. We shall see.

After last year's 4th hottest summer on record nationally, I'm guessing 2025 ended up somewhere in the 15th to 20th range.

DEN finished the last 10 days of August with no high warmer than 84. The last time that happened was 1987.

Seventh day in a row with rain here yesterday. DEN picked up another .69", now up to 4.10" on the month. Wettest August for the airport since it moved to its current location in the mid 1990s.

What he said actually doesn't make much sense. Moral intelligence vs. reasoning intelligence what?

Another day, another downpour here. .42" in just over an hour earlier this evening. Looks like the airport picked up .50". This has been the best summer rainy stretch here since June 2023 - which was insane (over 6" of rain in like 2 weeks).

This doesn't show amounts but definitely gives an idea of where the heaviest rainfall has been the past week. These maps tend to be biased dry because they often include stations that are missing precip data.

Just picked up .68" from a heavy t-storm that moved through. Up to 1.9" for the month. Loving this pattern!

Man, some of you all are just unlucky. Picked up another half inch so far today. DEN picked up 1.3"! That puts the airport at 2.8" on the month, well above normal. Looks like parts of Aurora have seen 2-2.5" today.

Gotcha. Looked like your area was getting hit good yesterday on radar...glad you picked up some this am!

That's crazy, I'm like 5 mi from you.

Another .31" this afternoon/evening. Up to .72" for the month.

Picked up .08" yesterday evening from showers. Everything is staying west so far today.

Uh, strong t-storm moving through south metro right now. Probably won't hit you but shows convection is definitely still on the table this evening.

Agreed, although this is a different pattern than we've seen most the summer. The lack of a strong four corners high this summer is the primary reason the monsoon has been lackluster around here, imo.

Correct. Here are a couple of the predictions from prominent experts during that period. One predicting in 2007 an ice-free Arctic by 2012, and the other in 2012 predicting an ice-free Arctic by 2016. Just goes to show that there are important factors not fully understood in this science, then or now. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2007/12/12/scientist-arctic-ocean-could-be-ice-free-by-2012/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea-ice#

A major storm impacted parts of the Denver metro earlier this month (DEN got 1.43" on 8/10), but this monsoon season has definitely been a disappointment overall. That said, this upcoming pattern looks amazing. 0z Euro showed sub-80 temps here all the way through day 10, with several sub-70 days. Basically unheard of for August in Denver. And plenty of rain.

I've lived in CO for nearly 20 years. Moving here had little to do with the weather, but I do enjoy the frequent snowfall.

There are certainly different ways to look at this. Back in 2012, there was a lot of talk of a tipping point having been reached in the Arctic, and some thought we'd be seeing virtually ice-free summers by now.

And yet we've seen an overall decline in violent crime since the 1980/90s, despite warming temps.

What are the top 3 highest since 2007?

Who in this thread is denying climate change? Your argument here makes little sense to me. Properly sited sensors have reliable, correct high temps, and that's why there's scientific standards for the ones that are used for NOAA/NWS data. Low temps, on the other hand, vary more wildly based on location and that can't be fixed through better siting. But it does make sense that sensors that have a long period of record in a single location that has seen the least amount of changes around it are going to provide the most reliable temperature record.

I haven't seen anyone in this thread denying global warming or claiming warming is UHI-driven.

Right, no one is disputing it's been hot in Flagstaff. It just hasn't warmed as much as Phoenix, as those stats clearly show. It's a distinct difference. - Two of Flagstaff's top 3 warmest summers happened more than 20 years ago. Meanwhile, those same two summers are tied for 6th hottest in Phoenix, and their three hottest are the last three summers. - Flagstaff has 5 summers among their 10 warmest that occurred 2007 or earlier. Phoenix has 2. - Flagstaff has a total of 7 20th century summers on their list. Phoenix has 3. - Phoenix's hottest summer is more than 4 degrees warmer than their hottest 20th century summer. Flagstaff's is less than 2 degrees warmer.

The last time Phoenix had an August with average low temps below their long term mean was 1990. Flagstaff did it in 2017, 2016, and 2014. Along with a bunch of other years since 1990.